Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Joel Osteen is driving WHAT?

[Luke Graves (buyer1]

Here he is in the Monza 860 that he won Sebring in in '56.  A bit muscular, particularly in the forearms.  Very charasmatic.  Easygoing and charming out of the cockpit.  Dead serious in it.

When he climbed into the cockpit it was like Reubenstein sitting down at the keyboard.  In any given car, he was always faster than everyone else.  He seemed to have perfect equipoise, a relaxed concentration, off in his own world.  He rarely ever made mistakes.  At Spa in '55, Neubauer(Mercedes Boss) cautioned Moss not to follow him too closely as he (Fangio) could make a mistake.  Moss replied that Fangio didn't ever make mistakes.  Take a look at the wonderful old Shell Oil film, Spa '55.  Cruising down the straights flat out with no Armco barriers and no seatbelt  looking like he was out for a Sunday drive!  One mistake and it was into the trees at 180!  He had real Balls!  In the 11 years he drove in F-1 there were 31 F-1 Drivers killed.

 

Luke

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thought you might enjoy that.

BTW, what did you think of Juan Manuel Fangio when you saw him? Brock Yates, in his book Enzo Ferrari, described him as balding, rather portly and bow-legged, but did go on to describe his driving skills as almost mystical. If I could go back in time, it would be interesting to have witnessed some of the legendary drivers that made the Ferrari a legendary car.

Regards,

Dennis

On Monday, October 9, 2017 10:31 AM, Luke Graves <buyer1 [at] airmail.net> wrote:

Ha!  Good.

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From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+buyer1=airmail.net [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Burleson
Sent: Monday, October 9, 2017 8:56 AM
To: Col Luke Graves
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Subject: [Ferrari] Joel Osteen is driving WHAT?

Joel would be in a Honda. 

It's in the bible... "and the disciples were all together in one ACCORD."